Martin Suter
translated from German by Olivier Mannoni
editor Christian Bourgeois, 2002
When he opens his eyes for the first time, Fabio Rossi, a young journalist of Italian descent, aged thirty years, hardly feel his face. He does not know where he is and does not recognize the people who parade around him. Fabio suffers from amnesia that has erased his memory of fifty days.
In this novel the reader knows never more than the hero himself, Martin Suter us into the terrifying intricacies of the brain and human memory. By tracking his memories, it's looking for his alter ego what party Fabio Rossi.
And until the last moment - in this novel built as a highly effective thriller, but which includes an extraordinary refinement in the depth of character and subtlety of the characters - not Fabio, the reader does not really know what "other" Fabio Rossi they discover in the end. (Note Editor)
Martin Suter study gives us a deep and subtle intricacies of the human soul.
Adapted film by Francis Girod's French film was released in 2006.
See also The cook, a novel published in 2010
After Having worked in advertising, during which he was already the author of stories for magazines (including GEO) and television, he decided to devote himself to writing (novels) since 1991.
From 1992 in early 2004, he signed the Business Class column in the weekly newspaper Die Weltwoche column which has since been transferred to the weekly supplement of the newspaper Das Magazin Tages-Anzeiger.
For these texts, some of which were published in book form in German, he was awarded the Austrian State Prize in 1995 for the industry. For her novel Small World, he received in 1997, the Prize of the Canton of Zurich and in 1998, he won the first foreign novel. (Ulike.net)
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